He is coming from the west and south but is not as furious as a Khamsin."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
As Cambyses had heard at Thebes, that the army he had sent against the oasis of Ammon in the Libyan desert, had perished miserably in a Khamsin, or Simoom, and that his fleet, which was to conquer Carthage, had refused to fight with a people of their own race, he fancied that the Memphians must be celebrating a festival of joy at the news of his misfortunes, sent for their principal men, and after reproaching them with their conduct, asked why they had been gloomy and morose after his victories, but joyous at hearing of his misfortunes.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
We encamped not far from the shore, and had to endure a dreadful Khamsin and dust-storm from the south, with such violent wind that I was blown down, and Matthaios dug our beds out twice with a trowel; and the next day we found the north wind nearly as bad.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent